Re: DNS Lookups.

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:04:41 -0800

Seth Crimmins wrote:
>
> >If I nslookup www.westelcom.com, it returns 208.148.51.11.
> >If I nslookup 208.148.51.11, it returns non-existent host/domain.
> >
> >Using nslookup, if I set server to ns.westelcom.com or ns2.
> >it will not resolve 208.148.50.2 or .3.
>
> What do you supose this means?

Most likely that your DNS server isn't the authoritive
in-arpa DNS server. Your upstream might be authorative for
it and may require the information for it to work correctly.

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